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“I’m usually a clown and I won’t even be a clown (this year),” shopper Beatrice Woods said.

“I think it’s great that they’re not selling them because I have a second-grader that’s scared of them,” shopper Candee Milling said.

Party City and Halloween Express are still selling clown masks. Halloween Express said clown masks and costume sales are up more than 200 percent this year.